ISBN:
9781785335570
,
178533557X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxxvi, 288 pages)
,
illustrations.
Edition:
Revised edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ardener, Edwin Voice of prophecy and other essays
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Anthropological linguistics
;
Ethnology
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Ethnology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
1. Social anthropology and language (with editorial preface) -- 2. The new anthropology and its critics -- 3. Language, ethnicity and population -- 4. Belief and the problem of women -- 5. Some outstanding problems in the analysis of events -- 6. 'Behaviour' : a social anthropological criticism -- 7. Social anthropology and population -- 8. The 'problem' revisited -- 9. The voice of prophecy -- 10. 'Social fitness' and the idea of 'survival' -- 11. Comprehending others -- 12. The problem of dominance -- 13. Social anthropology and the decline of modernism -- 14. 'Remote area' : some theoretical consideration -- Postscript 1. The prophetic condition / Kirsten Hastrup -- Postscript 2. Towards a rigorously empirical anthropology / Maryon McDonald -- Edwin Ardener : a bibliography.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index. - Print version record
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